Heather Hart

The Black Lunch Table Digital Archive (BLTDA) is a joint project between arts and culture non-profit Black Lunch Table (BLT) and Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. Building on BLT’s digital archival collections featuring 800 hours of recorded conversations with Black artists, creative workers, and community members. This phase of the project will make this unique oral history resource available to the public in its entirety for the first time. An open access, born-digital collection of images, transcriptions, and roundtable conversations featuring over 1,200 people from across the United States, Canada, and South Africa, the BLTDA is a fully-independent repository championing self-authorship and narrative control in the making and expansion of contemporary cultural history.